October 18, 2006

KST UHF operation memorandum for the October 17 (18), 2006 experiment

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Experiment name: sp_ni_con:　 tau2pl (CP1)

　　　　　　 pointrheight 185.1 77.5 299.6

elan files:puny :/kst/exp/tau2pl/tau2pl.elan

Pulse scheme: tau2pl

Start time: 00:00 UT on October 18, 2006

End time: 01:00 UT on October 18, 2006

00:49 UT REIMEI PASSED BY ABOVE TROMSØ

　 2006-10-18 00:49:23 UT　 (19.2008°E, 68.9114°N, 660.330 km)

　 Viewing from Tromsø is Az=180.8°, El=82.8°

Participants: Satonori Nozawa, and Takuo Tsuda

Before our experiment: ASK

After our experiment: Nothing

Other instruments.

Photometer, STEL digital camera (1-min interval), NIPR digital All-sky camera (30-sec interval), STEL proton imager.

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Note: (time in UT)

October 17

　　　　　 Clear Sky!.　 Temperature is 3 deg.

00:00 runexp /kst/exp/tau2pl/taup2l 00:00 cp1 NI

　　　　 TX ON

00:01 sod runexp /kst/exp/ tau2pl / tau2pl 00:00 cp1 NI

　 　　　kir runexp /kst/exp/ni/ tau2pl / tau2pl 00:00 cp1 NI

00:01 enablerec

　　　　 kir enablerec

　　　　　 rtg

　　　　　 webtg

00:06 sod enablerec

00:13　 at matilda

　　　　　 guisdap –a

　　　　　

　　　　　 Cloudy

00:15　 1.5 MW　 (according to guisdap, while 2182 kW in rtg: rtg is wrong)

00:35　 SNR at remote is good.

　　　　　　　　　 5% Kiruna, 2% Sodankylae

01:00　 stopexp (all sites)

Summary

Now break. Moderate activity in the E and F region was found. However, it was cloudy during the SP hour (00-01 UT)

Descriptions of SPs

sp_ni_mi

We will make an optical campaign using aurora cameras, proton imagers and 4-wavelength photometer with tje EISCAT UHF radar. Clear sky and higher geomagnetic activity are desired. Although we made request for 5 nights, we will run only 3 nights depending on conditions.

ASK

Optical campaign with the ASK (auroral structure and kinetics) instrument

deployed at Tromso.

Experiments to be used are arc, tau2pl and a new experiment to be developed

Hours are from UK(36) SW(20) NO(?)